Paradise Lost / Paradise Found, Motherland Lost, Motherland Found? The Images of Poland and Germany in the Debut Novel of Alexandra Tobor Sitzen vier Polen im Auto.... by Eliza Szymańska

“… The subject of the following analysis is the debut novel by Alexandra Tobor, a representative of „young prose with Polish roots“ within the German Literature. …”
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William Golding’s Apocalyptic Vision in Lord of the Flies and Pincher Martin by Chatterjee Arnab

“…Keeping with such trends, this paper would like to trace this line of apocalyptic vision and subsequent hopes of renewal with reference to William Golding’s debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954) and his Pincher Martin (1956). …”
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Citazioni all’opposizione. Rimandi intertestuali in Saša Sokolov by Noemi Albanese

“…"Škola dlja durakov" ("A School for Fools"), Saša Sokolov's debut novel, which was first published in 1976, is a fine example of a Modernist work. …”
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American War / by El Akkad, Omar, 1982-, author

“… "An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. …”

PS, I Love You / by Ahern, Cecelia, 1981- 319498

“…A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout:\nCecelia Ahern's debut novel, PS, I Love You, follows the engaging, witty and occasionally sappy reawakening of Holly, a young Irish widow who must put her life back together after she loses her husband Gerry to a brain tumour. …”

The White Tiger by Aravinda Adiga by Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri

“…The White Tiger Aravinda Adiga HarperCollins Indiao 2009   Aravind Adiga’s wry and satirical debut novel The White Tiger, takes the form of a series of letters to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, from Balram Halwai, the Bangalore businessman who is the self-styled “White Tiger” of the title. …”
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За смъртта на разказвача в маранята на магическия реализъм. Наблюдения върху творчеството на Георги Марковски... by Angelova, Maia

“…The analysis is based on the author’s debut novel Sensemaya (1971) and its version from 1978, named Portrait with a blue bird.…”
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The subject of humanity and historical memory in the harmony of silk factory by Fan, P.W., Yeoh, K.K., Fan, P..

“…The Harmony of Silk Factory is the debut novel of Tash Aw, who grew up in Malaysia, and is now living in London. …”

James Joyce’s Echoes in Caitriona Lally’s Portrait of Dublin City by José Manuel Estévez-Saá

“…James Stephens and James Joyce have been mentioned as referents for Caitriona Lally’s highly acclaimed debut novel, Eggshells (2015). The present contribution intends to study this new brilliant rendering of the city of Dublin through the eyes of allegedly ‘changeling’ Vivian, whose Joycean creative musings on language serve her to portray contemporary Dublin, as well as to imaginatively project portals to other worlds where she can feel more at ease.…”
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Per un nuovo itinerario gergale nella letteratura del secondo '900: «Lo sbarbato» di Umberto Simonetta («L'angolo dell'italiano, 1)» by Luca Bellone

“…The paper aims to analyse the original linguistic aspect that characterizes Umberto Simonetta’s debut novel, Lo sbarbato (1963), with particular attention to the jargon component at the base of the dialogue between the young protagonists of the work.…”
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Engagement for Engagement’s Sake by Aukje van Rooden

“…Taking the Dutch poet laurate Lieke Marsman's debut novel Het tegenovergestelde van een mens (The opposite of a human being) as an exemplary case study, this paper stresses that the literature of the millennial generation explores a new and different form of engagement, a form that is consonant with our 21st century living conditions, that are more complex, fluid, and volatile than they have ever been. …”
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Piecing Memories, Connecting Lives: The (Inter)Textual Quilt in Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata by Karla Kovalová

“…Using the quilt as a tool for textual analysis, this paper will explore Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata (1998), a debut novel describing three generations of black women bound by a shared legacy of slavery. …”
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Cutting for Stone / by Verghese, Abraham, author 422268

“…"A masterly debut novel, visceral in its power, heartbreaking in its tenderness. …”

Törleß and the Scene of Reading by Dominik Zechner

“…The article reads Robert Musil’s debut novel <i>Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß</i> (<i>The Confusions of Young Törless</i>) (1906) as a novel of the institution (Campe) in which diverse forms of violence are intertwined. …”
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« Une sorte de destin de femme ». La formation du roman total d’Annie Ernaux by Francesca Lorandini

“…Through an analysis of various thematic elements, such as educational experiences, sexual and romantic relationships, intellectual development, feelings of guilt associated with a perceived betrayal of one’s origins, the pursuit and abandonment of freedoms, and the discovery of authenticity through writing, the article reconstructs the interconnected themes and motifs prevalent in Ernaux’s body of work. Spanning from her debut novel Les Armoires vides (1974) to Mémoire de fille (2016) and Le Jeune Homme (2022), the study also explores the intellectual influences that have informed Ernaux’s questioning of what it means to be a woman, following the ‘common thread’ that links her to Simone de Beauvoir.…”
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'Tell me where it hurts. You have my word': trauma e scrittura in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous di Ocean Vuong ['Tell me where it hurts. You have my word': Trauma and Writing in... by Mirella Vallone

“…This paper examines identity, trauma, and writing in Ocean Vuong’s debut novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Written in the form of a letter the protagonist writes to his mother, the novel explores memory and language to give words and work through the narrator’s traumatic experiences related to the effects of the Vietnam War on the family members. …”
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‘Males and Females the Girl Consumes!’: Food, Desire and Unstable Gender Expression in Zinaid Meeran’s Saracen at the Gates by Antoinette Pretorius

“…This article analyses the ways in which food discourse is employed to destabilise essentialised notions of culture and gender in South African author Zinaid Meeran’s début novel, Saracen at the Gates (2009). The article explains how Meeran disrupts stratified conceptions of culture through his alimentary cartograph, and how food is used to disrupt religious identification. …”
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Rereading Afropean Identities through Espérance Hakuzwimana’s Tutta intera by Medugno, Marco

“… This article investigates the term ‘Afropean’ through an analysis of Espérance Hakuzwimana’s debut novel Tutta intera (2022). It aims to show how the novel, far from losing sight of the national context as the term ‘Afropean’ implies, effectively mediates issues related to specific localities and temporalities (racist and racial configurations in Italy in the 2010s) and transnational influences (the European and North American experiences of colonialism and slavery). …”
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Crisscrossed Identities and Black Feminist Perspectives in Lucía Mbomío’s Novel <i>Hija del camino</i> (2019) by Betsabé Navarro

“…Among the recent black voices that have achieved recognition in Spain is journalist and writer Lucía Mbomío, who condemns, in her debut novel <i>Hija del camino</i> (2019), the traumatic experiences that black women undergo with racism and sexism in Spain. …”
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Disrupted Parenthood in Caryl Phillips’s The Final Passage by Fediakova Anastasiia

“…In his debut novel The Final Passage, first published in 1985, Caryl Phillips (dis)connects the English and the Caribbean spaces simultaneously imposing this inbetweenness onto his continuously misplaced characters. …”
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